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Silent city on a hill : picturesque landscapes of memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery

Offers an insightful inquiry into the intellectual and cultural origins of Mount Auburn Cemetery, the first landscape in the United States to be designed in the picturesque style. This edition features photographs and an epilogue that carries the story forward into the twentieth century.Read more...

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"Perhaps the greatest virtue of this book is its comprehensiveness.... In illuminating the furthest reaches of Mount Auburn's meaning, the author also sheds light on many other aspects of nineteenth-century American culture.... Each of the eleven chapters--especially the seven or eight that separate out for consideration specific strands of intellectual and aesthetic influence, such as that of the English garden, the French 'cult of ancestors, ' or the American sensibility to melancholy--could stand on its own as an interesting study."Read more...